Brain Trauma Symposium

Sports Concussions: The Hidden Risks

On April 28, 2011, the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Tennessee Health
Science Center hosted a Brain Trauma Symposium, featuring two experts in the field of sports concussions.

Christopher Nowinski, former Harvard football player and WWE wrestler, co-founded the Sports Legacy Institute to "advance the study, treatment, and prevention of the effects of brain trauma in
athletes and other at-risk groups". He speaks to schools, sports programs, health
centers and at medical conferences, across the country, and continues to raise awareness
of the dangers of concussions.

Christopher Nowinski

Dr. Robert Stern, PhD

Dr. Robert Stern, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Neurology, Co-director of the Center for the Study
of Traumatic Encephalopathy and Co-director of the Alzheimer's Disease Clinical &
Research Program at Boston University School of Medicine. He is also on the Medical
Advisory Board for the Sports Legacy Institute.

This program was designed to provide the following information:

What a concussion is

How to recognize a concussion

How to get your athletes to admit suffering a concussion

Proper response

Appropriate concussion return-to-play guidelines

Coordination of concussion care

Concussion prevention strategies

The latest research on the long-term consequences of concussions and brain trauma,
including Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)